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News in Brief 2 March 2022 from 2022-03-02T12:52:04

• UN’s nuclear watchdog urges ‘restraint’ in Ukraine
• Healthcare needs already critical in Ukraine, warns UN health agency
• Obesity alert for Africa for more than th...
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Ukraine crisis: Children have been killed and more will die, warns UNICEF from 2022-03-02T09:55:30

Amid growing international condemnation over Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, tens of thousands of people are still trying to escape to neighbouring countries, fleeing en masse.

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News in Brief 1 March 2022 from 2022-03-01T11:59:27

• UN launches $1.7 billion humanitarian appeals for Ukraine
• UN humanitarians appeal to military actors to spare people in Ukraine
• Shocking abuses against indigenou...
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News in Brief 28 February 2022 from 2022-02-28T12:13:25

• Human Rights Council votes to hold urgent...
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Ukraine conflict: half a million flee to neighbouring countries from 2022-02-28T11:40:19

Five days after Russia launched a "special military operation" against Ukraine, more than 500,000 people have fled across the borders, ...

Climate change impacts ‘fall strongly on disadvantaged and poor people’ around the globe from 2022-02-28T10:23:35

UN scientists on Monday delivered a dire warning about the impact of climate change on people and planet.

The report launched by...

No time to lose to make a fairer post-COVID world: UN labour agency chief from 2022-02-25T15:11:40

There’s no time to lose if we’re to ensure that the world after COVID-19 is ...

News in Brief 25 February 2022 from 2022-02-25T13:05:58

• Ukraine crisis: terrified families seek shelter underground in capital
• Sri Lanka: ‘setbacks’ to accountability for past human rights violations
• UN’s Sudan rights...
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine crisis, disability action, COVID news from 2022-02-24T16:36:28

In this week’s show, inspiring messages from disability activist Irena Valarezo Cordova from Ecuador, who features in the UN Population Fund’s (Listen

News in Brief 24 February 2022 from 2022-02-24T10:57:02

• Ukraine crisis: conflict must stop, Guterres urges Russia’s Putin 
• Humanitarians fear ‘devastating’ consequences from attac
• 7.5 million children in Ukraine at ri...
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News in Brief 23 February 2022 from 2022-02-23T09:57:42

• Prioritize diplomacy and peace in Ukraine: UN General Assembly President
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News in Brief 22 February 2022 from 2022-02-22T11:34:33

• UN stands by Ukraine amid rising tensions
• Fourth tropical cyclone in a month to slam into Madagascar
• Arming Myanmar’s junta must stop – independent rights expert...
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News in Brief 21 February 2022 from 2022-02-21T11:35:20

• COVID-19: Health teams facing ‘dangerous neglect’ at work
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News in Brief 18 February 2022 from 2022-02-18T11:15:24

• UN chief urges de-escalation as Ukraine tensions rise
• WHO reveals Afr...
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News in Brief 17 February 2022 from 2022-02-17T10:43:27

• Horn of Africa hunger crisis: Germany steps up with $20 million donation
• Child sex abuse in Madagascar ‘widespread and tolerated’
• Rights expert Adama Dieng to vi...
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News in Brief 16 February 2022 from 2022-02-16T12:08:41

• Guterres opens Global Disability Summit with inclusivity call
• 8 in 10 Africans haven’t had a single COVID vaccine: Listen

News in Brief 15 February 2022 from 2022-02-15T11:59:29

• Somalia: 1.4 million children face threat of acute malnutrition
• Singapore urged to halt executions
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News in Brief 14 February 2022 from 2022-02-14T11:24:14

• $54.5 million boost announced from Sustainable Development Fund
• Syrians displaced by violence in northeast return home
• Death toll rises to 121 in Madagascar fr...
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Indigenous radio is ‘backbone’ of our communities, Torres Strait journalist says from 2022-02-12T18:51:04

Broadcasting in indigenous languages connects these communities to culture and at times provides important information that can save people’s lives.

That’s the opinion of Rhianna Patrick,...

News in Brief 11 February 2022 from 2022-02-11T11:03:40

• Myanmar: Internally displaced doubl...
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News in Brief 10 February 2022 from 2022-02-10T10:54:53

• ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ in Africa COVID fight
• Women’s scientific talent going to waste says UN chief
• Breast cancer screening boost for Amazon: Listen

News in Brief 9 February 2022 from 2022-02-09T12:04:53

• Vaccine equity can end COVID-19 pandemic in 2022 
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News in Brief 8 of February 2022 from 2022-02-08T11:28:38

- 13 million people facing severe hunger in the Horn of Africa, warns WFP and Listen

More solidarity needed to counter rising insecurity crisis: UNDP from 2022-02-08T10:17:03

Despite rising global wealth, most people today feel anxious about the future, according to a new report from the UN Development Programme (Listen

News in Brief 7 February 2022 from 2022-02-07T12:11:28

• New HIV variant shows need to step up action: UNAIDS
• Stronger regulations for trucks and coaches in EU
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News in Brief 4 February 2022 from 2022-02-04T11:40:23

• New cancer prevention initiative launched
• Ethiopia: UNHCR rush...
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News in Brief 3 February 2022 from 2022-02-03T11:52:06

• Africa: six-fold increase in COVID vaccinations needed
• At least 6 children killed in Syria raid
• Global food prices rise again 

News in Brief 2 February 2022 from 2022-02-02T11:55:56

• “Right to disconnect”: WHO and Listen

News in Brief 1 February 2022 from 2022-02-01T10:42:26

• Healthcare waste from COVID-19 threatens environment: Listen

News in Brief 31 January 2022 from 2022-01-31T11:59:31

• Focus on diplomatic solutions to end Ukraine crisis, DiCarlo urges
• UN chief stands in solidarity with Myanmar’s people, a year after coup
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News in Brief 28 January 2022 from 2022-01-28T11:31:57

• Myanmar: Time to restore democracy, says UN rights chief
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When you lived through it, the Holocaust ‘never leaves you’  from 2022-01-27T14:10:05

Pinchas Gutter is from Łódź, Poland, where he enjoyed a very happy childhood before the Second World War. He survived six different Nazi concentration camps – a life forever changed by the traum...

News in Brief 27 January 2022 from 2022-01-27T12:39:43

• UN marks Day of Rememberance of Holocaust
• After storm Ana, 45,000 people need help in Mozambique, says Listen

The suitcase of courage from 2022-01-26T12:37:57

A dusty old suitcase that lay undiscovered for decades in a backyard shed in Australia, has revealed an astonishing story of friendship, courage and resistance to the Nazi regime and its extermi...

Global education partnership ‘hard-wiring’ gender equality: Former Tanzanian president from 2022-01-26T12:29:02

The Chair of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), former Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete, says that although the key objective is helping disadvantaged children everywhere get access t...

News in Brief 26 January 2022 from 2022-01-26T12:11:46

• Afghanistan ‘hanging by a thread’, Guterres tells Security Council<...
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CLIP: UN Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on Afghanistan from 2022-01-26T11:38:26

UN Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on Afghanistan,...

News in Brief 25 January 2022 from 2022-01-25T11:28:15

• UN rights chief deplores Burkina Faso coup
• Deadly storms affect thousands in Madagascar
• UN Mission in South Sudan condemns deadly attack

News in Brief 24 January 2022 from 2022-01-24T13:00:21

• ‘No free ride’ for COVID-19: Listen

UNICEF education chief insists on reopening schools amid growing learning gap from 2022-01-23T18:35:06

There was already a learning gap before the pandemic, with disadvantaged and marginalized children lagging far behind in terms of educational achievement.

Since the onset of Listen

Tongans ‘still overwhelmed with magnitude of disaster’  from 2022-01-21T17:12:40

One week after the volcanic eruption and tsunami that hit the islands of Tonga, the UN Coordination Specialist there, says people “are still overwhelmed with the magnitude of the disast...

Secretary-General's remarks to the General Assembly on his Priorities for 2022 from 2022-01-21T15:35:07

Secretary-General's remarks to the General Assembly on his Priorities for 2022.

News in Brief 21 January 2022 from 2022-01-21T11:21:07

• Tigray: Eritrean refugees ‘scared and struggling to eat’ says UNHCR Listen

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: The last Holocaust survivors from 2022-01-20T16:41:25

In this week’s show, a wonderful coral reef discovery in the South Pacific, and the far from wonderful country-wide jobs crunch in Afghanistan, as the economy nosedives. In Africa, there’s been ...

‘Deep reef’ find, signals hope in face of warming seas, says coral biologist from 2022-01-20T15:43:43

Stunning images of a just-discovered deep-sea coral reef near Tahiti travelled across the world on Thursday – the result of a Listen

News in Brief 20 January 2022 from 2022-01-20T11:44:33

• COVID-19 cases and deaths dip in Africa
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News in Brief 19 January 2022 from 2022-01-19T11:54:16

• 2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO
• Afghanistan: 500,000 jobs lost since Talib...
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News in Brief 18 January 2022 from 2022-01-18T12:32:12

• Peaceful protesters killed or injured almost every day in Sudan 
• Conflict escalates in Yemen with more civilians dead
• Earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least ...
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UN labour agency chief predicts slow recovery to pre-pandemic jobs levels from 2022-01-17T13:06:57

The head of the UN labour agency warns that a recovery in the international labour market is still a long way off, with a lot of uncertainty for workers and businesses, hoping for the economy to...

News in Brief 17 January 2022 from 2022-01-17T11:15:08

• Tonga volcanic eruption update from UN humanitarians
• Taliban in Afghanistan overseeing ‘collective punishment’ of women, girls: UN rights experts
• Horn of Africa facing maj...
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News in Brief 14 January 2022 from 2022-01-14T10:58:46

• $150 million released to help underfunded humanitarian emergencies
• Tigray: aid operations ‘are about to grind to a halt’, warns Listen

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Tech solutions to relieve typhoon-hit Philippines from 2022-01-13T15:40:44

In this week’s show, the latest on the emergency relief effort in the Philippines after the terrible destruction caused by Super Typhoon Rai; deep concern about the blockade of medicines to Ethi...

News in Brief 13 January 2022 from 2022-01-13T09:52:22

• UN’s Bachelet welcomes crimes of humanity verdict against Syrian officer
• Africa’s fourth pandemic wave flattens out after six-week surge
• Tigray: Listen

News in Brief 12 January 2022 from 2022-01-12T11:55:40

• COVID-19: Global infections rose by 55 per cent in a week: Listen

Exhibition provides ‘strong, powerful’ argument for nuclear disarmament from 2022-01-11T11:54:25

A powerful and haunting exhibition featuring the Hibakusha – the Japanese survivors of the nuclear bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki more than three-quarters of a century ago – has ju...

News in Brief 11 January 2022 from 2022-01-11T11:26

• Afghanistan: UN launches largest single country aid appeal ever 
• US saw 20 climate emergencies costing $1 billion-plus in 2021  
• Almost 10,000 people detained in...
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News in Brief 10 January 2022 from 2022-01-10T09:41:20

• Ethiopia: Relief teams suspend operations in northwest Tigray
• Sudan: UN envoy announces talks with key civilian and military figures
• For 25th year in a row, Gree...
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Sudanese authorities must respect freedom to protest: UN rights office  from 2022-01-07T12:43:48

Amid daily mass protests in Sudan and the reported lethal shooting of three demonstrators in Khartoum on Thursday, the UN rights office, Listen

News in Brief 7 January 2022 from 2022-01-07T09:45:50

• Relief teams fear worsening aftermath of Super Typhoon Rai
• WHO Omicro...
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Clashes and displacement in Yemen’s Marib from 2022-01-06T15:05:15

In our first show of 2022, the fight goes on for oil-rich Marib in northern Yemen, where the UN’s migration agency Listen

News in Brief 6 January 2022 from 2022-01-06T11:24:59

• 55 journalists killed in 2021, impunity still widespread: Listen

Tourism industry needs fundamental ‘rethink’ in wake of COVID pandemic from 2022-01-05T12:37:21

In the three decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, world tourism grew...

News in Brief 5 January 2022 from 2022-01-05T09:50:42

• Condemnation for killing of journalist reporting on Myanmar refugees
• Harsh winter fuels ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
• Syria: Grim start to 2022 as t...
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News in Brief 4 January 2022 from 2022-01-04T11:19:02

• 70 per cent vaccination target must be met to ward off Omicron: WHO
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: The communities who are fighting climate change with their bare hands from 2021-12-30T16:23:57

In this final show of 2021, climate wars and how the UN refugee agency is trying to help the world’s most vulnerable communities including those in the Sahel; a “COVID tsunami” alert from the Listen

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: A year at the Human Rights Council   from 2021-12-23T14:12:46

Following resolutions on climate and COVID vaccine equity, this week’s show highlights why the UN’s top rights forum is more relevant than ever, according to outgoing President Nazhat Shameem Kh...

‘We have an obligation to solve the hunger problem’: award-winning chef Andrew Zimmern   from 2021-12-23T11:51:48

Globally, enough food is produced to feed the world’s seven billion people, and yet 811 million still go to bed hungry each night.  

Award-winning chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern w...

News in Brief 23 December 2021 from 2021-12-23T11:49:31

• ‘Existential’ funding threat for Occupied Palestinian Territories 
• No country can boost its way out of COVID pandemic: Listen

News in Brief 22 December 2021 from 2021-12-22T11:38:08

• Yemen alert: 8 million face reduced rations says WFP
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News in Brief 21 December 2021 from 2021-12-21T11:10:20

• Alarm over Sudan reports of sexual violence and live rounds used against protesters 
• ‘Appalling’ plight of migrants and refugees at Belarus-Poland border  
• Thous...
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News in Brief 20 December 2021 from 2021-12-20T11:45:10

• Philippines Super Typhoon Rai: UN humanitarian response
• Lebanon: UN chief Guterres urges political unity
• Somalia emergency funds desperately needed says relief...
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PODCAST: COVID-19 forces relief rethink at world’s largest humanitarian hub from 2021-12-19T01:10:05

International Humanitarian City (IHC) in Dubai, the world’s largest humanitarian hub with some 135,000 square metres of warehouse space, has been transformed by the Listen

News in Brief 17 December 2021 from 2021-12-17T10:49:44

• Ethiopia: severe human rights violations and abuses continue  
• Viet Nam in rights spotlight over sentencing of activists for ‘anti-State propaganda’ 
• Cameroon: I...
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Lifesaving advice at Central African COVID-19 call centre from 2021-12-16T14:29:24

In this week’s show, we’re in touch with a very busy COVID-19 call centre in...

News in Brief 16 December 2021 from 2021-12-16T11:46:08

• Migrant workers still at great risk despite key role in global economy: I...
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News in Brief 15 December 2021 from 2021-12-15T14:14:01

• COVID19 - We’re not against boosters, we’re against vaccine inequity says WHO chief<...
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News in Brief 14 December 2021 from 2021-12-14T12:27:13

• Record Arctic temperature confirmed: WMO 
• Afghanistan revenge killings continue, Listen

Sudan: Finding consensus to move forward a ‘challenge’: UN mission chief  from 2021-12-14T00:20:06

Finding a national consensus to move forward following October’s military takeover of Sudan’s government, and subsequent reappointment of the civilian Prime Minister, is going to be a challenge,...

News in Brief 13 December 2021 from 2021-12-13T11:38:29

• Discussions on AI weapons must advance swiftly: Guterres
• COV...
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News in Brief 10 December 2021 from 2021-12-10T12:48:02

• Rights violations deepening in Myanmar warns Listen

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: COVID vaccines hoarding alert, Sahel hunger crisis, modern slavery  from 2021-12-10T07:17:37

In this week’s show: there are 40 million slaves today around the world - find out what the UN is doing to help them; also, real concerns about COVID vaccine hoarding linked to the rise of Omicr...

News in Brief 9 December 2021 from 2021-12-09T12:39:03

• Vaccine hoarding will prolong COVID-19 pandemic, warns Listen

Durban +20: ‘Nobody’ is free from the impacts of racism, intolerance from 2021-12-08T11:22:55

As the UN independent expert on contemporary racism and intolerance, Tendayi Achiume leads a worldwide effort to combat related human rights violations and tackle systemic racism, through fact-f...

News in Brief 8 December 2021 from 2021-12-08T10:37:47

• COVID-19 linked to rise in TB deaths in Africa: Listen

News in Brief 7 December 2021 from 2021-12-07T12:00:54

• 35.8 million face lean season food crisis in West Africa and Sahel  
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News in Brief 6 December 2021 from 2021-12-06T12:04:55

• Myanmar: Bachelet deplores conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi
• Unprecedented funding gap in Ethiopia leaves millions vulnerable – Listen

PODCAST: Durban +20 - forging a creative path in defense of human rights from 2021-12-04T03:00:08

Growing up in California’s Silicon Valley, African-American Derrick León Washington took note of the socio-economic disparity around him, and knew early on, there was something unjust about what...

News in Brief 3 December 2021 from 2021-12-03T11:16:52

• Omicron: Don’t panic but prepare for likely spread, says WHO 
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ISIL survivors can be assured of international support from 2021-12-02T16:51:10

Survivors of genocide and other atrocities committed by ISIL fighters in Iraq should rest assured that the international community supports them. 

That’s the message from Christian Ritsch...

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Afghanistan’s farming crisis, Omicron travel bans, COVID digital gaps from 2021-12-02T13:35:28

In this week’s show: drought in Afghanistan to add to farmers’ woes, and how the UN is helping. Strong words from António Guterres and Listen

News in Brief 2 December 2021 from 2021-12-02T12:49:19

• Guterres rounds on ‘travel apartheid’ of Omicron-linked travel bans
• Emergency aid needs set to rise by 17% to 274 million: UN humanitarians
• Myanmar: Forced evictions viol...
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News in Brief 1 December 2021 from 2021-12-01T08:49:47

• UN health agency Member States agree to pursue ‘historic’ pandemic treaty
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News in Brief 30 November 2021 from 2021-11-30T12:30:43

• COVID-19: Listen

News in Brief 29 November 2021 from 2021-11-29T11:08:50

• WHO members mull ‘pandemic treaty’ as Omicron cases multiply 
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Safeguarding children’s digital lives from 2021-11-27T00:35:05

Artificial Intelligence systems are being used in an increasingly large range of toys, games and educational tools targeting children, but there are few safeguards in place to protect them.

News in Brief 26 November 2021 from 2021-11-26T10:48:43

• Ethiopia’s humanitarian crisis leaves 9.4 million in need
• HIV self-testing needs vastly lacking in Asia, Latin America: Unitaid 
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Yemen alert, COVID in kids, stopping GBV&landmines eradication update from 2021-11-25T12:05:15

Hello, in this week’s show: an alert over fighting in Yemen’s north and the inevitable toll on the country’s war-weary people, grassroots solutions to gender-based violence among refugees and th...

News in Brief 25 November 2021 from 2021-11-25T09:58:28

• Drowning of 27 migrants in English Channel is worst disaster on record: IOM...
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News in Brief 24 November 2021 from 2021-11-24T11:08:54

• COVID-19: Listen

Yemen recovery will take time and money, but is not impossible: UNDP from 2021-11-23T12:58:08

Despite the ongoing war in Yemen, and the devastating humanitarian consequences, there is still hope for recovery within a generation, the UN Development Programme (Listen

Moving the narrative from ‘feeding to nutrition’: an interview with the World Food Prize laureate   from 2021-11-23T12:49:36

Aquatic foods – a key source of protein, micronutrients and essential fatty acids – are “superfoods”, which, when added to a diverse diet of vegetables, fruits and pulses, such as beans, peas an...

News in Brief 23 November 2021 from 2021-11-23T11:45:36

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News in Brief 22 November 2021 from 2021-11-22T12:36:29

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  Pandemic reform is progressing, but not fast enough: WHO panel 
  

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‘Kid of the year’ who’s not afraid to tackle global challenges through science  from 2021-11-19T12:08:51

If news headlines get you down sometimes, I’ve got the antidote: it’s youth activist Gitanjali Rao.  

At just 15, Miss Rao was Time Magazine’s first Kid of the Year in 2021 – in recog...

News in Brief 19 November 2021 from 2021-11-19T11:29:14

• Afghan farmers desperate for seed, food and cash: FAO 


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For Afghan children, 'it's all about survival': UNICEF from 2021-11-19T10:24:21

In Afghanistan, some?22.8 million people are?facing food insecurity, including 14 million?children.? 

The situation s expected to worsen, with the UN Children’s Fund (Listen

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ethiopia arrests, COVID-19 antiviral boost, #YAS21 from 2021-11-18T12:41:22

In this week’s show: a worrying state of emergency continues in Ethiopia where UN staff are being held – the Secretary-General wants them released immediately – a pharma deal that gives a lot mo...

News in Brief 18 November 2021 from 2021-11-18T11:48:08

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  Kids in Nigeria feel most pressure to succeed, says UN Children’s Fund 
  


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  Abandoning Afghanistan would be historic mistake: UN top official in Kabul 
  
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News in Brief 17 November 2021 from 2021-11-17T09:31:57

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  Ethiopia: arrested UN staff must be released, says UN chief 
  


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  One in two youngsters in Bosnia and Herzegovina want to quit the country  
  


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News in Brief 16 November 2021 from 2021-11-16T11:12:39

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  Ethiopia: mass arbitrary arrests target Tigrayans, says UN rights office 
  


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News in Brief 15 November 2021 from 2021-11-15T10:53:52

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  COP26 made progress, but climate catastrophe not averted: UN chief
  


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  $40 million in aid relief to Ethiopia for victims of conflict, drought
  


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PODCAST: Tears, fears and fossil fuels from 2021-11-13T17:36:31

At times it seemed that a COP26 resolution was still hours or even days away but, on Saturday evening, a final document was finally adopted, despite the misgivings expressed by many countries at...

PODCAST: A turning point, or a disappointment? COP26 winds down, with a final declaration still unsigned from 2021-11-12T15:07:09

With negotiators still haggling over the details of the COP26 final declaration, Conor Lennon and Laura Quiñones look back over two extremely busy, sleep-deprived weeks of announcements, protest...

News in Brief 12 November 2021 from 2021-11-12T13:13:52

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  Belarus-Poland crisis: Human rights of trapped migrants are paramount 
  


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  UN Special Advisor urges bolder action on #COP26 draft text 
  


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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Lifesaving drones, Belarus-Poland crisis, COVID-19 and COP26 from 2021-11-11T14:40:45

In this week’s show: how drones are proving their worth in humanitarian emergencies, worrying data on diabetes and Listen

PODCAST: COP26 negotiators ‘roll up their sleeves’ to get a deal from 2021-11-11T12:53:59

In theory it is the penultimate day of COP26, but this is dependent on negotiators reaching a final agreement, with many thorny details still to be ironed out.

Thursday was also Citie...

News in Brief 11 November 2021 from 2021-11-11T11:12:09

• COP26 China-US deal welcomed by Secretary-General


• Belarus-Poland crisis: UN agencies provide aid to stranded migrants


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PODCAST: Driving the transition to zero emission vehicles – transport day at COP26 from 2021-11-10T13:39:14

It’s looking more and more likely that electric vehicles will dominate the roads of the most developed countries within the next few decades. But will the Global South become the world’s dumping...

News in Brief 10 November 2021 from 2021-11-10T11:23:38

• COVID-19 cases see slight global increase, says Listen

UN steps up wheat planting support, as Afghans face catastrophe from 2021-11-10T08:30:07

Afghanistan may have dropped out of the news headlines since the Taliban takeover in mid-August, but the situation there is heading towards catastrophe, UN humanitarians have warned. 

New UNDP initiative shows Afghan people they ‘have not been forgotten’  from 2021-11-10T01:55:05

In the past few weeks, the UN Development Programme (UNDP),?under an agreement with the?Listen

PODCAST: The power and energy of women and girls – gender day at COP26 from 2021-11-09T14:19:58

Little Amal, the giant puppet of a Syrian refugee girl was, literally, the biggest figure at COP26 on Tuesday, where the main theme was gender.

She took to the main stage today, along...

News in Brief 9 November 2021 from 2021-11-09T11:31:34

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Turn to the ICJ before going down path to war, Registrar urges countries from 2021-11-09T10:34:35

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PODCAST: The waters are literally lapping at our ankles – adaptation day at COP26 from 2021-11-08T13:30:30

Even if we were to cut all the world's greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, we would still be left coping with rising temperatures and an unpredictable climate. That’s why adaptation is, literally...

News in Brief 8 November 2021 from 2021-11-08T10:41:13

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  WFP warns 3 million more, now ‘teetering on the edge of famine’ 
  


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PODCAST: Appealing to our better nature - COP26 day 6 from 2021-11-06T12:41:10

Mankind’s impact on the planet is causing it to react against us, provoking extreme weather events in every corner of the world.

But there is a growing realization that, rather than i...

PODCAST: Engaged, empowered, and angry – youth day at COP26 from 2021-11-05T15:35:13

The anger of climate activist Greta Thunberg, one of the leading voices of the demonstrations in Glasgow City Centre on Friday, threatened to drown out the events taking place within the COP26 c...

News in Brief 5 November 2021 from 2021-11-05T13:10:03

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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Tigray conflict, Afghans ‘broke and broken’, COP26 climate action   from 2021-11-04T14:27:48

Packed into this week’s 15-minute show: potential war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ethiopia’s Tigray; we hear from the UN rights office which has spoken to victims and their families; a...

PODCAST: Off-grid, power on; energy day at COP26 from 2021-11-04T14:17:55

Energy was the main theme of COP26 on Thursday, with a particular focus on ending the world’s reliance on coal. 

However, to achieve the UN’s aim of achieving clean and reliable acces...

News in Brief 4 November 2021 from 2021-11-04T11:39:56

• COP26 adaptation measures must increase: UNEP report


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PODCAST: ‘Here’s where we draw the line’ – a trillion dollar climate commitment at COP26 from 2021-11-03T15:55:04

Day three of COP26 was dominated by climate finance: how to ensure that the financial sector moves definitively away from fossil fuels and instead invest in initiatives that push the global econ...

UN rights office report: Tigray situation is unbearable from 2021-11-03T13:32:42

When you hear about war and conflict as a news consumer, it can be easy to overlook the human toll; but not in Ethiopia, where a hard-hitting UN rights office report has uncovered the very real ...

News in Brief 3 November 2021 from 2021-11-03T13:03:16

• COP26: Cities key to climate, pandemic recovery, says Guterres


• Ceasefire appeal for Ethiopia: UN rights chief


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PODCAST: Seeing the woods and the trees - COP26 day 2 from 2021-11-02T15:33:49

Several new pledges were made on the second day of COP26, the UN climate conference, but the reforestation commitment made by the public and private sector attracted the most attention.

News in Brief 2 November 2021 from 2021-11-02T13:20:24

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PODCAST: Bagpipes, jetlag, and the 'climate action army' - COP26 begins from 2021-11-01T14:42:04

The 26th UN climate conference, or COP, opened with a World Leaders Summit on Monday, and a characteristically blunt speech from UN chief António Guterres. It’s the start of a mammoth two-week e...

Online technologies ‘very useful’ for human trafficking from 2021-11-01T13:02:43

Human trafficking takes many forms and can involve forced labour or domestic servitude. But when it comes to...

News in Brief 1 November 2021 from 2021-11-01T12:29:22

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Why are astronauts growing food in space? from 2021-10-29T13:42:09

World leaders convene in Glasgow this weekend for the UN Climate Conference, COP26, to finalise the full implementation of the Listen

News in Brief 29 October 2021 from 2021-10-29T12:33:56

• Prioritize water and climate action, WMO and partners say ahead of COP26 


• Rising climate could push millions more into hunger: Listen

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: A successful nutrition recipe for visually impaired children  from 2021-10-28T12:55:53

In this week’s show, why cookery classes are proving a hit with visually-impaired children in Rome; we have the latest stories from the UN News team in New York, and as ever, there’ll be closing...

News in Brief 28 October 2021 from 2021-10-28T12:54:18

• Rights chief says climate action's the only way to 'safeguard humanity'


• Climate-related disasters causing triple the economic losses in developing v developed count...
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News in Brief 27 October 2021 from 2021-10-27T10:53:52

• Afghanistan facing ‘epic humanitarian crisis’ UN chief warns neighbouring countries.


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News in Brief 26 October 2021 from 2021-10-26T12:27:16

• Planet still on track for catastrophic heating: new Emissions Gap report


• UN rights chief to Israel: Reverse terrorist designations


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News in Brief 25 October 2021 from 2021-10-25T12:03:43

•    UN chief, top officials, condemn Sudan coup

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Solidarity echoes throughout Dubai 2020 Expo from 2021-10-24T11:03:41

Messages of solidarity rang across Expo 2020 in Dubai as participants celebrated UN Day on Sunday. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed called on the world “to hold on to the hopefulness of t...

'Harbouring' explained: New publication analyses act of people-trafficking from 2021-10-22T23:10:05

A new UN publication sheds light on the ways in which victims of human trafficking are accommodated during different stages of their trafficking ordeal.

This process known as ‘harbou...

News in Brief 22 October 2021 from 2021-10-22T12:03:46

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  Libyan Government plan needed to end ‘dire situation’ of asylum seekers, refugees 
  


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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: The ‘Hendrix of the Sahel’, Afghanistan, COVID-19 and forecasting boost  from 2021-10-22T08:35:23

In this week’s show, the “Jimi Hendrix of the Sahel”, also known to his fans as Vieux Farka Touré, sings his message of peace, in a region on the frontlines of climate change, mass displacement ...

WFP: Madagascar families facing world’s first potential climate change famine from 2021-10-21T14:47:58

More than one million people in southern Madagascar are going hungry in what the World Food Programme (Listen

News in Brief 21 October 2021 from 2021-10-21T10:17:12

• $667 million funding call to help Afghans through economic crisis 


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News in Brief 20 October 2021 from 2021-10-20T11:02:56

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  ‘Overzealous’ security services undermining South Sudan peace: rights experts 
  


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  Humanitarian assistance stepped up on Yemen’s west coast 
  


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News in Brief 19 October 2021 from 2021-10-19T13:11:05

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  ‘Shameful milestone’ in Yemen as child deaths, injuries, pass 10,000  
  


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  Airstrikes in Tigray mark new intensification in Ethiopian conflict: Listen

News in Brief 18 October 2021 from 2021-10-18T09:57:06

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  Polio vaccination set to recommence across Afghanistan in November - WHO 
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For head of Myanmar Mechanism, time is of the essence for accountability from 2021-10-15T12:10:29

For more than two years, a UN-appointed team of 59 people has been collecting and analyzing more than two million pieces of evidence about possible human rights violations in Myanmar.

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News in Brief 15 October 2021 from 2021-10-15T11:10:47

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  Displaced in northeast Nigeria ‘knocking on door of starvation’: WFP 
  

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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Africa’s COVID tracing gap, TB alert, Afghanistan and ‘The Walk’ from 2021-10-14T14:19:04

In this week’s show, just one in seven COVID cases is detected in Africa while deaths from another deadly disease – tuberculosis – rise for the first time in a decade, the World Health Organizat...

News in Brief 14 October 2021 from 2021-10-14T11:30:50

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  COVID-19 caused rise in TB deaths for first time in a decade 
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Song for the Sahel aims to spread message of peace, says Mali maestro from 2021-10-14T01:55:05

It’s not very often at the UN that we get the chance to talk to talented musicians whose work can help to promote the Organization’s goals of peace, human rights and development; but that’s exac...

News in Brief 13 October 2021 from 2021-10-13T11:07:53

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  When disaster strikes, developing countries are still too vulnerable 
  


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  China pledges $230 billion to global biodiversity fund 
  


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SDG Advocate calls for more action against child slavery    from 2021-10-12T22:35:05

When he went to school for the first time, five-year-old Kailash Satyarthi saw a child cobbler, sitting outside the school gate.  

Seeing the impoverished boy having to work and unabl...

News in Brief 12 October 2021 from 2021-10-12T12:02:54

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  Afghanistan crisis worsening as temperatures drop: UNHCR 
  
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E-buses: ‘Swiss army knife solution’ for sustainable transport  from 2021-10-12T09:56:53

The most important action the world can take to tackle the climate crisis is to quickly decarbonize every mode of transportation on earth, according to one determined expert, starting with buses...

News in Brief 11 October 2021 from 2021-10-11T11:11:59

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  Yemen’s future still fragile, warns senior aid official
  


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News in Brief 8 October 2021 from 2021-10-08T12:46:38

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  ‘Post COVID’ clinical definition aims to boost treatment: WHO 
  

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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: COVID vaccine surge bid, Afghanistan, Syria and Mozambique  from 2021-10-07T12:08:03

In this week’s show, a UN-led push to get more COVID vaccines into lots more arms all over the world, Afghanistan reaches a new ‘depth of destitution’ and an alert in northern Mozambique over th...

News in Brief 7 October 2021 from 2021-10-07T11:18:26

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  Guterres backs UN health agency’s global COVID-19 vaccine strateg...
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News in Brief 6 October 2021 from 2021-10-06T11:03:30

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  Afghanistan: ‘Depth of destitution’ must be met with urgent aid scale-up  
  


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News in Brief 5 October 2021 from 2021-10-05T10:33:28

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  One in three people impacted by water stress, says UN 
  


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  Children ‘indoctrinated’ to fight for insurgents in Mozambique 
  


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Sowing seeds of solidarity, after the Tree of Life Synagogue killings from 2021-10-05T10:14:25

Kaylee Werner was a teenager when a gunman attacked the Tree of Life Synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh, on October 27, 2018. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the natio...

News in Brief 4 October 2021 from 2021-10-04T14:29:47

• Climate change message of solidarity, as UN chief addresses UNCTAD15


• Libya: War crimes likely committed since 2016, UN probe finds


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Job well done: After 3 years, UN mission Force Commander in Mali moves on from 2021-10-04T14:22:30

Three years after being appointed by the Secretary-General, the Force Commander for the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali ( Listen

‘People feel trapped’: UN aid chief in Yemen from 2021-10-01T23:15:05

When David Gressly, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, called for $3.85 billion from international donors to avoid a point of no return in March, he said that “Yemen can’t w...

News in Brief 1 October 2021 from 2021-10-01T10:46:26

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  Ethiopia expulsions could affect aid operation, warn UN humanitarians 
  


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  UN rights chief Bachelet shocked by killing of Rohingya activist  
  


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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Tigray, Afghanistan, and Palestinian economic decline from 2021-09-30T13:29:40

In this week’s show, the UN’s top humanitarian official says that famine is likely happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray, while food waste and poor diets continue to handicap millions of children world...

Haiti: ‘Dire’ situation awaits thousands of migrants forced to return from Americas  from 2021-09-30T11:34:41

Conditions on the ground are dire for the thousands of Haitian migrants being forced to return to their homeland from the Americas, many of them “empty handed”, and bewildered. 

That’...

News in Brief 30 September 2021 from 2021-09-30T11:23:49

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  ‘Urgent’ international response needed in Myanmar after coup - UN chief 
  


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  Comprehensive support needed for Haitians facing expulsion in Americas 
  
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News in Brief 29 September 2021 from 2021-09-29T10:33:44

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  Famine likely happening in Tigray, warns UN's emergency relief chief  
  


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News in Brief 28 September 2021 from 2021-09-28T10:38:56

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  Food waste: A global problem that undermines healthy diets - Listen

News in Brief 27 September 2021 from 2021-09-27T12:05:19

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  Global tourism slump is an emergency for many nations: Guterres 
  


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UN nuclear test ban chief wants to bring Treaty into force  from 2021-09-27T11:18:31

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty opened for signature 25 years ago this month but hasn’t yet entered into force.  

In his first UN News interview, the new head of the Compreh...

News in Brief 24 September 2021 from 2021-09-24T10:23:45

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  COVID19 virus ‘blocker’ treatment gets WHO green light 
  


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We’re not the women of 2001, Afghan activist tells Taliban rulers in talks call from 2021-09-24T10:02:43

Afghan political exile Zarifa Ghafari fled Kabul shortly after the Taliban takeover on 15 August; she’d already survived three attempts on her life as one of the country’s few female mayors – an...

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Afghanistan; Myanmar, South Sudan from 2021-09-23T15:06:21

In this week’s show, UN Secretary-General António Guterres Listen

News in Brief 23 September 2021 from 2021-09-23T10:31:51

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  Myanmar crisis escalating towards civil war, warns UN rights chief  
  


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  G20 need to scale up food aid to Afghanistan’s rural population 
  


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News in Brief 22 September 2021 from 2021-09-22T09:58:01

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  Afghanistan’s health care system on brink of collapse: Tedros 
  


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  US-China commitments on climate action welcomed 
  


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News in Brief 21 September 2021 from 2021-09-21T09:47:41

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  Guterres: ‘common responsibility’ to save planet for future generations 
  


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  UN rights office seriously concerned over Haiti migrant returns from US 
  
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UN Secretary-General's address to the Opening of the General Debate of UNGA76 from 2021-09-21T09:46:38

UN Secretary-General's address to the Opening of the General Debate of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, on Tuesday, 21 September 2021. Full remarks Listen

News in Brief 20 September 2021 from 2021-09-20T11:59:03

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  Getting sustainability back on track, only way to save planet: Guterres
  


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  Guterres condemns Yemen executions by Houthis  
  


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Breakdown or breakthrough? UN chief lays out stark choices for humanity from 2021-09-18T23:00:04

For UN Secretary-General António Guterres, this is a pivo...

News in Brief 17 September 2021 from 2021-09-17T11:38:57

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  Paris climate deal could go up in smoke without action: Guterres
  


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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Climate warning, Afghanistan, Burundi, Yemen from 2021-09-17T06:35:41

In this week’s show, an appeal for support for Afghanistan’s people from António Guterres, who also warns that we’re at a “tipping point” for climate action; we also hear from the fifth and fina...

News in Brief 16 September 2021 from 2021-09-16T11:02:32

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  World at ‘tipping point’ for action on emissions and climate change 
  


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  Torture, killings, lawlessness, still blight Burundi’s rights record 
  


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News in Brief 15 September 2021 from 2021-09-15T11:04:05

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  Global economy projected to show fastest growth in 50 years 
  


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  UN deputy chief condemns Mogadishu suicide bombing 
  


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  Cluster bomb victims...
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News in Brief 14 September 2021 from 2021-09-14T11:27:21

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  First humanitarian flight to Kabul marks ‘turning point’: WFP 
  


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News in Brief 13 September 2021 from 2021-09-13T10:05:49

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  Support Afghans in their most perilous hour, urges UN’s Guterres  
  


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  Bachelet warns of deteriorating human rights situation in Afghanistan 
  


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PODCAST: Sowing seeds of solidarity, after the Tree of Life Synagogue killings from 2021-09-12T01:25:05

Kaylee Werner was a teenager when a gunman attacked the Tree of Life Synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh, on October 27, 2018. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the natio...

Concrete commitments needed to aid Afghan people, declares UN relief chief from 2021-09-11T11:52:30

With half of Afghanistan’s children under five at risk of severe malnutrition and two-thirds of the country needing humanitarian assistance, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator is urging the i...

News in Brief 10 September 2021 from 2021-09-10T11:38:17

• Afghanistan: Taliban violence against protesters increasing, warns Listen

News in Brief 9 September 2021 from 2021-09-09T14:05:16

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  IAEA and Japan agree on Fukushima nuclear plant timeline
  
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Afghanistan, DR Congo, Tigray and Yemen from 2021-09-08T12:04:07

In this week’s show, aid to Afghanistan in the international spotlight, a deadly bacterial meningitis alert in northeastern DR Congo, Yemen’s “unbearable” war drags on, and alarming developments...

News in Brief 8 September 2021 from 2021-09-08T11:21:48

• Afghanistan suffering, 'unimaginable' says UN chief


• Yemen: climate of fear has worsened, all sides to blame - rights experts


• DR Congo declares deadly m...
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News in Brief 7 September 2021 from 2021-09-07T12:11:31

• Afghanistan: dire needs could worsen, basic services collapsing 


• Conflict in Tigray now creating dire needs in neighbouring districts


• Critical gaps in refugee educ...
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News in Brief 6 September 2021 from 2021-09-06T10:43:19

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  UN chief to lead call for Afghanistan humanitarian appeal 
  


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   Australia must drop coal ‘or see climate change cause economic havoc’: UN adviser
  

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News in Brief 3 September 2021 from 2021-09-03T12:58:19

• Afghanistan: ‘major’ crisis looming, UNHCR warns


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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Afghanistan update, global dementia alert, COVID in Africa from 2021-09-02T14:22:42

In this week's show, an appeal for Afghanistan’s neighbours to keep their borders open after the Taliban takeover; an interview with a migration expert from UN Children’s Fund Listen

News in Brief 2 September 2021 from 2021-09-02T12:15:41

• Africa set to miss key Listen

News in Brief 1 September 2021 from 2021-09-01T12:55:53

• Mu COVID-19 variant tracking latest: Listen

News in Brief 31 August 2021 from 2021-08-31T10:26:16

• Afghanistan: far more lifesaving medical supplies needed: WHO

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PODCAST: Former US Ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, remembers Ralph Bunche from 2021-08-31T08:36:10

Andrew Young’s long and eventful career saw him at Martin Luther King’s side during the civil rights era, becoming the first African-American US Ambassador to the United Nations under Jimmy Cart...

News in Brief 30 August 2021 from 2021-08-30T12:26:46

• Afghanistan: lifesaving medical supplies reach Mazar-i-Sharif - WHO
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Nuclear threat ‘as realistic as ever’, says Kazakhstan’s UN Ambassador from 2021-08-28T12:33:52

For the people of Kazakhstan, 29 August is not just a day on the calendar but a reminder of the threat that nuclear weapons pose to humanity.

That’s the message from the country’s UN ...

News in Brief 27 August 2021 from 2021-08-27T12:36:52

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Pursue peacekeeping ‘regardless of your sex’, urges Senior Police Adviser from 2021-08-26T13:02:03

As head of the police component at the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), Satu Koivu says “good competencies and skillset”, rega...

News in Brief 26 August 2021 from 2021-08-26T10:45:17

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  Trials of former prominent Spanish judge ‘arbitrary’ - UN Committee
  


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  Coming months critical for future pandemic preparedness: Listen

News in Brief 25 August 2021 from 2021-08-25T10:28:36

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  Bubonic plague puts young lives at risk in DR Congo: UNICEF
  
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News in Brief 24 August 2021 from 2021-08-24T12:15:26

• Afghanistan: women’s liberty a red line, says UN rights chief Bachelet


• Shelter needs soar for displaced in Yemen’s Marib region


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News in Brief 23 August 2021 from 2021-08-23T13:06:30

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News in Brief 20 August 2021 from 2021-08-20T11:43:25

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  Aid access to Afghanistan holding amid uncertainty and fear: UN agencies 
  


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  UN deputy chief arrives in Haiti with message of solidarity 
  


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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Afghanistan emergency, Haiti quake solidarity from 2021-08-19T16:30:31

In today’s show, urgent humanitarian needs in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, the devastating aftermath in quake-hit Haiti, and how the UN health agency is helping to snub out potentiall...

News in Brief 19 August 2021 from 2021-08-19T11:36:58

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  Race is on to limit impact of extreme weather on most vulnerable: Guterres
  


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  Minorities must be at heart of bid to save planet’s biodiversity: rights expert  Listen

News in Brief 18 August 2021 from 2021-08-18T11:01:29

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  Afghanistan aid and medical lifeline to millions must not be cut, warns WH...
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